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UNITED UNION OF ROOFERS WATERPROOFERS
To unite and mutually obligate all members for the purpose of securing concerted action in all matters regarding their welfare and interests.
$239k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
2
Communities
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
0166% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Environment$61kEmployment$58kInternational$9kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$67k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
policy
2021
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2022
partvolunteershfhihabitat humanitychicago
2023
veteranspersonneleducationfaith
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$15,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE$15,750
- BEAR NECESSITIES CANCER FOUNDATION$7,500
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 51% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$159k · 4 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +143% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
6
Total granted
$159k
$41k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+143%
+58%
Still filing today
100%
83%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EmploymentEnvironmentInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- USUNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE6× · 2019–2024 · $61k · revenue +6%
- CFCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +6%
ARISE-CHICAGO4× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +372%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +7%
- CJCHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130graduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +58%
- BCBUILDING CONSTRUCTION TRADES OF SOUTH CENTRAL WIone grant, 2019 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Laborers International Union of
Union hall- betterment of members compensation and working conditions
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2
Laborers' Int'l Union of North America
Labor union (district council)
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3
International Union of Operating
Labor organization representing members in a variety of industries including construction, construction material production, steel mill services/slag processing, lanscaping and many others principally in illinois, indiana and iowa. the…
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4
United Food and Commercial Workers
To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
Employment
5
Chicago Municipal Employee's
Illinois state chartered credit union operated for the mutual benefit of its members
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6
Union League Club of Chicago
The union league club of chicago provides a unique opportunity for its members to participate as a leader in promoting civic, philanthropic, & cultural matters of common interest.
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7
Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce
To engage working men and women, and the community at large, in order to improve health, income, and education. the organization's services are substantially supported through funding from governmental units or direct contributions from…
Employment
8
International Union of Operating
The work of the union, as the representative of its members, is to provide for the continuous employment of labor, to bring about stable conditions in the industry, and to establish necessary procedures for resolutions of disputes between…
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9
United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joine
Labor union
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10
Chicago & Midwest Regional Joint Board
The joint board's purpose is to organize workers for the economic, moral and social advancement for their condition and status in life. the joint board also promotes efficient service to the public and the best interest for member's…
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11
Wisconsin Laborers' District Council
To protect and improve the lives of its members through family-supporting wages and benefits, as well as through programs and services designed to make its members the safest, most skilled and productive workers in the laborers' industry.
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12
Iron Workers District Council of Chicago
Organize workers for advancement
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Federation of Labor and and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$67,308Environment$61,250Employment$57,600International$8,500Community Improvement$5,200
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNION SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR ↗
- Who funds ARISE-CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WORKERS JUSTICE WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 ↗
- Who funds VFW ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation UNITED UNION OF ROOFERS WATERPROOFERS funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WORKERS JUSTICE WISCONSIN.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 412227413 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WORKERS JUSTICE WISCONSIN, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to United Union of Roofers Waterproofers?
Find your warmest path to United Union of Roofers Waterproofers through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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